Study Guides Library

When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamín Labatut, Transl. Adrian Nathan West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

When We Collided

Emery Lord

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

When We Left Cuba

Chanel Cleeton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

When We Two Parted

Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

When Women Were Dragons

Kelly Barnhill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

When You Are Old

William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1893

When You Reach Me

Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

When You Trap a Tiger

Tae Keller

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Where am I Wearing?: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes

Kelsey Timmerman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1966

WHEREAS

Layli Long Soldier

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Where Do We Go From Here

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Maria Semple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Where I'm Calling From

Raymond Carver

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1982

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

Jon Krakauer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Where She Went

Gayle Forman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Where's Molly

H. D. Carlton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Where the Forest Meets the Stars

Glendy Vanderah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Where the Heart Is

Billie Letts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Where the Lilies Bloom

Bill Cleaver, Vera Cleaver

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1969

Where The Mountain Meets The Moon

Grace Lin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Where the Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1961

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Shel Silverstein

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Where The Watermelons Grow

Cindy Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

While Justice Sleeps

Stacey Abrams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Whirligig

Paul Fleischman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Whisper Network

Chandler Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

White Angel

Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1988

White Bird: A Wonder Story

R. J. Palacio

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race

Ian Haney-López

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

White Fang

Jack London

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1906

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Robin DiAngelo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era (P.S.)

Shelby Steele

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

White Is for Witching

Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race

Matthew Frye Jacobson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

White Noise

Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

White Oleander

Janet Fitch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Peggy McIntosh

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1989

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Carol Anderson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

White Teeth

Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper

Martín Espada

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

Who Fears Death

Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Who Moved My Cheese?

Spencer Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1962

Whose cheek is this?

Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1859

Who's Irish?

Gish Jen

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

Who Understands Me but Me

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1990

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race

Beverly Daniel Tatum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Why Fish Don't Exist

Lulu Miller

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Julie Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Why I Am Not a Christian

Bertrand Russell

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1927

Why I Live at the P.O.

Eudora Welty

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1941

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Reni Eddo-Lodge

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Why I Write

George Orwell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946

Why Liberalism Failed

Patrick J. Deneen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping

Paco Underhill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Why We Can't Wait

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

Why We Crave Horror Movies

Stephen King

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1981

Why We're Polarized

Ezra Klein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress Related Diseases, and Coping

Robert M. Sapolsky

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Wicked: Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Wieland

Charles Brockden Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1798

Wild Bees

James K. Baxter

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1949

Wild Bird

Wendelin Van Draanen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Wilderness and the American Mind

Roderick Nash

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

Wildfire

Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Wild Geese

Mary Oliver

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

Wild Nights Wild Nights

Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

Wildoak

C. C. Harrington

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Wild Seed

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Jung Chang

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Wildwood

Colin Meloy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Wildwood

Junot Díaz

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2007

Will

Will Smith, Mark Manson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Willodeen

Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Wind

Ted Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1957

Wind, Water, Stone

Octavio Paz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

Winger

Andrew Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Wingfoot Lake

Rita Dove

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

Wink

Rob Harrell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Anand Giridharadas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Winnie-the-Pooh

A. A. Milne

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1926

Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Craig Groeschel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod

Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 1994

Winter Dreams

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

Winter Garden

Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Wintergirls

Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Katherine May

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Winter In The Blood

James Welch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Winter's Bone

Daniel Woodrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Wirers

Siegfried Sassoon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Wisdom Sits in Places

Keith H. Basso

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996